VietNamNet Bridge – Beautiful landscapes of terraced rice fields with ripened paddy grains in the northern mountainous region have attracted a large number of tourists, tour operators said.

Tourists take pictures of terraced rice fields.

Some travel firms said that the number of tourists buying tours to destinations in the region such as Yen Bai Province’s Mu Cang Chai District or Ha Giang Province’s Hoang Su Phi District rose staggeringly compared to last year’s same period.

Tran The Dung, deputy director of Young Generation Travel Co., said the firm has taken many groups of tourists from HCMC to Hoang Su Phi, Mu Cang Chai and Ban Gioc Waterfall (Cao Bang Province) in the past 20 days.

At Fiditour Co., the number of tourists buying the five-day tour to Viet Phu Thanh Chuong, Muong Lo, Mu Cang Chai, Sapa and Muong Hoa has also increased by around 25% year-on-year.

The normal price of this package tour is VND10.5 million per person but the discounted price currently on offer is VND7.5 million. Besides, customers can buy the tour at VND6.5 million at Fiditour’s 24h Sale website.

Yen Bai Province has yet to have official statistics on the number of tourists, but there have been around 3,000 tourists flocking to Mu Cang Chai in the past week to admire terraced rice fields and join activities of the Culture, Sport and Tourism Week of Mu Cang Chai Terraced Field taking place on September 27-30.

According to Pham Viet Phuong, head of travel at Yen Bai Province’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the number of tourists visiting terraced rice fields at this time of the year is higher than last year.

“Hotels have more tourists, local people sell more souvenirs,” he told the Daily on Tuesday.

Source: SGT